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Services & Resources

Resources

We openly share the following resources to support anyone in a management position at a nature center, outdoor school, or related organization. If you find these resources useful and are not currently an ANCA member, we encourage you to see our membership options. We regularly share new and updated resources in exclusive member communications.

Click on the categories below to see resources specific to that topic.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge

    A 21-day plan to further your understanding of power, privilege, supremacy, oppression, and equity.

  • A Guide to Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

    Native Governance Center’s guide, including tips for creating a land acknowledgement.

  • ANCA Statement: Black Lives Matter

    ANCA's public statement in support of racial justice in 2020, with a list of similar statements made by ANCA members.

  • Anti-Racism Resource Collection

    A list of resources by the Resource Sharing Project, an effort "to help state sexual assault coalitions across the country access the resources they need in order to develop and thrive as they work to support survivors and end sexual assault."

  • The Avarna Group

    Empowering organizations to make change, and not just talk about it. Many great resources for making change!

  • BEETLES: Examining Equitable and Inclusive Work Environments in EE

    A nine-page document that examines "how environmental education organizations think about and operationalize equity and inclusion in the work environment," with emphasis on the perspectives of environmental educators of color.

  • BEETLES & Youth Outside: Racial Equity in Outdoor Science and Environmental Education

    An article about establishing an environmental education field that is centered in racial equity and inclusion, especially within the context of the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Building Diverse, Inclusive Teams

    From Intention to Action: Building Diverse, Inclusive Teams to Deepen Impact

  • Center for Diversity and the Environment

    The Center for Diversity & the Environment harnesses the power of racial and ethnic diversity to transform the U.S. environmental movement by developing leaders, catalyzing change within institutions & building alliances.

  • Dismantling Racism

    A Resource Book. 

  • eeGuidance for Equitable Pay and Hiring

    There are several key areas that employers must change to make environmental education careers more accessible to a broader population, including pay and benefits, position design, recruitment, processes, and practices. The eeGuidance for Equitable Pay and Hiring provides researched explanations of why these areas matter and it outlines specific minimum standards for employers to enact immediately and identifies the target standards that we all must work toward to transform employment in our field.

  • Environmental Professionals of Color (EPOC) Network

    EPOC is a project of the Center for Diversity & the Environment, "working to build coalitions that address the diversity crisis at the heart of the environmental movement." The network has chapters throughout the US.

  • Five Ways to Make the Outdoors More Inclusive

    Five takeaways from a brainstorm session of prominent outdoors experts and advocates.

  • Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgement

    The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture’s page about land acknowledgement.

  • IslandWood Hiring Practices

    IslandWood's list of current norms for a more equitable hiring process.

  • The Joy Trip Project's Anti-Racism Resource Guide

    A resource guide for faculty, staff, students, extension educators, outdoor advocates, volunteers and community leaders as allies of Black, Indigenous, and people of color in the outdoors.

  • Justice Outside

    Justice Outside is an organization that advances racial justice and equity in the outdoor and environmental movement.

  • Leaking Talent: How People of Color Are Pushed Out of Environmental Organizations

    A report that focuses on the retention and promotion of people of color in the environmental movement.

  • Native Land

    A website run by Native Land Digital, including a map of territories, languages, and treaties.

  • OF/BY/FOR ALL Self-Assessment

    A quick self-assessment to evaluate how your institution connects to your community and audiences.

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